Henry weston



(No Model.)

WESTON. GAR TRUCK.

No. 593,145 Patented Nov. 2, 1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FHCE.

HENRY VESTON, OF BUFFALO, NEWV YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN S. ROCKY/ ELL, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-TRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,145, dated November 2-, 1897.

Application filed July 29, 1897. Serial No. 646,291. (do model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY VVESTON, of Bulfalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oar-Trucks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a side frame for car-trucks of simple, rigid, and durable construction, and, furthermore, to provide guides for the journal-boxes, so supported that any pair of wheels carried by the truck may be expeditiously and conveniently removed or replaced when occasion may require.

Another object of the invention is to construct the said guides for the journal-box in sections, which sections need not be made right and left, enabling the guides for the boxes to be quickly and conveniently assembled and secured in position.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a car-truck, illustrating the application 'of my invention, a portion of said truck at one side of the center being in section. Fig. 2 isa plan view of one portion of the said truck, and Fig. 3 is an end view of the truck.

The frame of the truck at each side consists of the usual upper and lower bars or beams 10, between which beams or bars the arch or brace bars 11 and 12 are located. The arch-bar 11 is secured at each of its ends to the upper beam 10, and the arch-bar 12 is secured at both of its ends to the lower beam 10, the attachment of the ends of the archbars to said beams being at the end portions of said beams. The arch-bar 11 at each side of the center of the space between the beams 10 extends downward, and the central lower portion of the arch-bar 11 is straight and is bolted to the lower beam 10. The other archbar12 extends upwardly from the lower beam inner and outer side portions of the truckframe, as shown in Fig. 1. The flattened portions 13 of the arch-bars 11 and 12 are socured together, preferably, by means of rivets, bolts, or their equivalents, as is also shown in Fig. 1. Under this construction the side frames of the truck are made exceedingly strong and are very simple in their construction.

Transoms 14 connect the central portions of the side frames. These transoms are preferably in the nature of I-beams and are connected by one or more similar horizontal tie-beams 15. The usual head-block 16 is supported upon the .transoms to receive the pivot or king bolts of the car, and the said transoms may be further braced and connected by upper crossbeams 1'7. (Illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.)

The upper portions of the journal-box guides B and also the spring-seats are made in two parts, each part consisting of a long or vertical leg 18 and a short or horizontal leg 19. The sections of the guide-boxes are of any approved construction, and the vertical legs are provided with slideways upon their inner faces to receive the boxes 20. The sections of the journal-box guides are secured to the side frames through the medium of bolts 21 or their equivalents.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A side frame for a car-truck, consisting of upper and lower beams and arch-bars between the beams, the said bars being arranged to cross one another at each side of the center of said frame, the arch-bars being also flattened and secured together where they cross one another, for the purpose set forth.

2. In the construction of car-trucks, a side frame consisting of an upper and a lower beam, and arched bars secured to the said beams at their ends and at the center, the arched bars crossing one another at each side of the center of the frame, being twisted where they connect with one another, and se cured by fastening devices, for the purpose set forth.

3. In the construction of car-trucks, a side frame consisting of an upper and a lower beam, arch-bars secured to the said'beams at their ends and at the center, the arch-bars crossing one another at each side of the center of the frame, being twisted where hey contact with one another and secured by fastening devices, transoms connecting the side frames of the truck at their central portions, and braces connecting said transoms, for the purpose set forth.

4:. A car-truck having top and bottom mem* bers of side bars projecting at each end and journa1-box guides each having a verticalleg formed as a guide for the boxes, and a horizontal leg projecting toward the center and forming a spring-seat, and bolts passing through the vertical leg and the top and bottom members of the said bars, substantially as described.

5. In the construction of the side frames of car-trucks, the combination, with upper and lower beams and arch-bars secured at their ends and at their centers to said beams, one arch-bar being attached at its ends to the up per beam and at its center to the lower beam, the other arch-beam being secured at its ends to the lower beam and at its center to the upper beam, said arch-bars crossing one another at each side of the center of the side frame, being flattened Where they contact and secured together at their flattened surfaces, of transoms connecting the side frames of the truck, and journal-box guides constructed in sections, each section comprising a vertical and a horizontal leg, and fastening devices whereby the sections of the said guides are secured independently to the side frames, for the purpose set forth.

HENRY WESTON.

WVitnesses:

GEORGE H. TOMLINSON, WM. R. DANIEL. 

